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Battlefield 1942 was the first FPS I got really into. Its first expansion, Road to Rome, was meh, but the second expansion, Secret Weapons of WWII, added some really unique and exciting weapons and vehicles. I especially loved flying the Goblin and the HO-229 around harassing infantry and light armor.

Looking back on it, it's pretty and that they made an expansion focused around wunderwaffen weapons and a stand-in for the fucking SS. But damn if adolescent me didn't have hours of fun pew pew'ing around with a jetpack Don't worry I play less-overtly-fascist games now, like Helldivers II.

khive is going to make people like this look well-adjusted

Already got a text from some loser PAC to "thank Joe" and send a contribution to "show commitment to Kamala." Replied that they should [redact] themselves etc etc, I know it's a robotext and no one will read that shit, but maybe some lanyard dork will stumble upon it and take a hint

It is every hexbear user's duty to spread FUD that this was caused by AI (and tbh I'm still not convinced it wasn't)

Please be related to them pushing out some AI bullshit that would be so fucking funny

The Biden campaign should revive Dark Brandon by having him drive a classic muscle car at the DNC convention. No guard rails protecting the lanyard crowds, either, now is a time when we need to show confidence in our president!

Watching the Democrats frantically trying to get the president to step down like a terrified family stuck in a car with grandpa driving as he veers in and out of oncoming traffic has warmed my cold doomer heart

Trailer (CW: Flashing lights, marvel slop) for the new Captain America dropped. No sign of Sabra, I wonder if Disney is too scared to promote the Israeli superheroine, but they're probably just holding her back to reveal in future teasers

Also extremely funny that the line "Global power is shifting" is played over a scene of the US president standing next to Marvel's apparent in-universe Xi equivalent

Edit: Just realized that the president (played by Ford) is Thaddeus Ross/Red Hulk in this movie. Probably gonna pirate this just to see a US president fight Captain America

It's even worse than that. The Acolyte has twin human characters both played by the same actress, and there are several scenes where it's obvious that they use a double facing away from the camera, even for dialogue. They really go out of their way to avoid having the adult twins both in frame, face visible to the camera at any given time. The Parent Trap had this figured out in 1998, but I guess that's a lost art to Disney!

Another funny thing to pick apart from this show,

During the Jedi visit to the tribe, which honestly feels like a liberal depiction of a police raid (ostensibly non-violent, just unwelcome and intrusive), the kids have an argument with each other. This tribe, that is depicted as social outcasts hiding on a remote planet to stay off of the Jedi Order's radar, somehow raises one twin (Osha) to be a total Jedi bootlicker, while her sister has the complete opposite attitude. I actually burst out laughing when child Osha blurts out "The Jedi are good!" What?? Her entire family and everyone she's ever known since birth seems, at best, extremely distrustful of the Jedi! We're given no snippet or anything like she read stories or something about Jedi doing heroic acts or whatever. She just inherently loves the Jedi for some reason, because the writers wanted to do a "one twin is drawn towards the light, the other darkness." It's such shitty, lazy writing.

Also, this show is hilarious for how each and every Jedi is a completely uncharismatic dork. I'm talking completely stiff, painfully uninteresting characterizations. But it's impossible to tell if the show actually intended that, or if they were going more for "serious, by-the-book guardians of justice" or w/e and just fell flat. I guess that's the problem with trying to depict warrior monks whose entire dogmatic religion is about not forming emotional attachments, lol.